...one that puts the start button back in place. So far, Ive seen nothing to drag me away from the current version. Windows 8 feels dumbed down- do I really need the metro interface on a desktop? If not give me a start button.
Showing my ignorance... What about virtualization. I've not done any tinkering with this but can one not run XP or even DOS in a virtual machine hosted by a 64 bit OS?
Anything to say about the surgeons pay? Crickets...
If you can drive a school bus, you can drive an Airbus, right?
20 hours at the Dayton Airport hotel...very exotic indeed.
(30k vs 150k)
Wow, I've been at this for 25 years and I'm not making that much money- not even six figures. Tell me where to sign up for that, or were you mistaken about that 150K?
Maybe you should STFU, as you know to little about which you speak.
Not sure if you're trolling or not. Ok,I'll bite...
If you going to blame the flight attendants, why not the pilots too? Let's add the mechanics and the rampers while we're at it. Shit, let's be honest and assign all the blame for all the economy's problems to all of labor. They are the real problem here, and everywhere. Who needs the middle class, Why did we bother bailing out Detroit? Lazy autoworkers don't deserve to mop up after they shutter the industry. Let them find jobs at Walmart like everybody else...Let them eat cake.
When the middle class is gone there will be nothing left to hold up the economy. What will the "1%ers" do then- all that money and nothing to do with it. Shame really, 'cause they had nothing to do with running companies into the ground- absolutely nothing, flawless business decision making acumen and under appreciated management skills. They really should be paid more. $40 million dollars simply isn't enough. The only good thing about AA bankruptcy is that when they exit chapter 11, the executives will be made whole again- just like it never happened...and those miserable labor pukes will get what the deserve- stolen pensions, 50% paycuts, and doubled workloads. Social darwinism is real. You believe in it, right? You believe its just a matter of time before you join the ranks of the 1%, because you're a real hard worker, and real hard workers get rewarded? See ya on the other side...
Everyone agrees that existing transportation security has a great deal of imperfection. So I'm certainly willing to listen to ideas for improvement. His ideas, one at a time:
1. No more banned items: not sure about this one. Terrorists don't value any life-even their own. What makes him think only taking a whole airliner out is at stake. I'm betting they'd be willing to give their lives for just a few passengers being knifed to death and the resultant chaos and fear- it is terrorism after all.
2. Allow all liquids: I'd like to know more before I acquiesce. They're definitely trying to get explosives on board. He needs to assure us that his statements are true by citing the science behind his claims.
3. Give TSA officers more flexibility and rewards for initiative, and hold them accountable: Right after 9/11, the airline provided security was "fired". Remember those fine folks at Argenbrite? I'm not trying to denigrate anyone, but those employees of privately contracters were mostly high school dropouts that were immediately rehired by TSA- many, it was discovered later, had criminal records. Things have improved but ten years have passed- shouldn't things have progressed further?. Who wants to be a TSA officer? I doubt the government would pay enough to hire the quality individuals needed to implement this kind of approach. The professionalism has advanced leaps and bounds, but they still pay them poorly
4. Eliminate baggage fees: YES- the airlines often create their own problems, like this. However, this policy is in response to customer economic behaviors. They want CHEAP airfares, not quality products, forcing the airlines to nickle and dime the fare payers. Look at Spirit for how bad this has become. If we want this, it will have to be enacted and regulated by the government. Good luck in this political environment of Tea Partyism.
5. Randomize security: agreed, however, this will ultimately decrease security. The issue is how much is lost compared to how much convenience is gained.
As a pilot, I'm subjected to nearly the same security requirements as passengers. I find this to be a waste of time. Thankfully, we are making headway in the area of trust based security- the one thing Hawley felt was unworkable. The Registered Traveler program needs a second look. If we can trust crewmembers with our lives, then we can start adding passengers to the list of trusted individuals.
Thumbing through, I find this one (my own career choice) to be rated higher for "stress" than any of the preceeding careers. The methodology apparently looks at the following: Travel,
Outlook/Growth Potential,
Deadlines,
Working in the Public Eye,
Competitiveness,
Physical Demands (stoop, climb, etc.),
Environmental Conditions,
Hazards Encountered,
Own Life at Risk,
Life of Another at Risk,
Meeting the Public.
Can't see why it would rank so high in stress when those are the factors. If I want to "get away" i can retreat to the cockpit and close the door: that removes "Working in the Public Eye" and "Meeting the Public" quite easily (depending on how those are defined), not that people stress me out. "Outlook/Growth Potential"- don't get me started on the age 60/65 retirement issue: it's been five years of stagnation on top of a bad economy and 9/11. "Environmental Conditions"- I do walkarounds in the winter, but I get to control the temp in my workspace to warm back up. Oh yeah, polar crossings are prohibited during solar events, but I do get the equivalent of a couple extra X-rays per year in cruise. If "Own Life at Risk, Life of Another at Risk" are considered important, maybe they could add a few dollars to my pay to sooth my nerves... a surgeon is paid 3-5 times what I make but he only holds one person's life in his hands at a time, I've got hundreds."Hazards Encountered"- that's fairly open ended. Maybe you should ask Clayton F. Osbon's copilot about that. "Physical Demands (stoop, climb, etc.)"- I'm not 20 pounds overweight from physical exertion, but lethargy is its own physical demand. "Deadlines"- I'll move when I'm damn well ready to, and not a moment sooner. At least safety is still both under the pilots control and his responsibility.
problem is, that you can't talk about that problem (racism against whites) without being declared a racist. Minorities that have been the victims of legal racism seem to want retribution much more than equality?
...the two way street appears different when looking from either end-reallity is its the same...
I can see why he was canned and why there was backlash.
Where to start.. You have nailed it sir..
This whole topic is important to me and you have , so far, summed it up best with the fewest words. At the moment we're at 400+ posts, but I would sincerely not expect it to end berfore 1000. It really relates to the way racisim is percieved/defined by people: Too many folks think its what whites have done over centuries/millenia and not enough think of it as what one individual/group does to another today. I personally am guilty of stereotyping as well as a victim of racism- shaped by my personal experience. I neither wish to be a victim nor a perpetrator, just hoping to overcome the gap of perception.
I completely believe that you have had numerous positive interactions with individual people of the middle east that you have come across. But I'd suggest most would agree with me that on the whole, westerners are hated (rightfully I would say for political reasons) by the majority of the citizens of Southeast Asian countries. Religion and culture play a part but it's mostly political. As for religion and culture, I find nothing redeeming about any religion, and culturally, Arab nations have positively medieval attitudes regarding free speech, freedom of religion, democracy, secular statehood, free enterprise and human rights and they treat women as second class citizens at best and property at worst. Don't take my word for it, research it yourself. Here's a starting point with a collection of statistics and polls:
http://markhumphrys.com/islamic.world.html/. Fortunately, things have improved, if only marginally.
Yes, obviously. Except UAE and Oman. We're lucky they let gaijin behind the wheel, as most infidels are too stupid to reach the afterlife. Can women even drive there? You may be right though, there are some wild examples here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjPWf_UQkSc/ Too much oil money, methinks, not enough "sense"...
The point is, why put your effort into honking the horn instead of attempting to regaining control of the car? Must we all just give up and become passengers? If the collision is avoidable, make every effort to do so. Put another way, if the collision is unavoidable, blowing the horn wont make a difference.
To be sure, I did not suggest his wife erred- see first sentence of my original post...
Yes, they call them panic stops for a reason. But, I'd argue that, generally, drivers are woefully undereducated and we need to raise the bar a bit...JMHO.
You got that right. Can you believe they teach new drivers in America to step as hard as you can on the brakes and let ABS work. Wrong, wrong wrong. If ABS has engaged, one should release pressure until just below threshold. Also stopping straight ahead (if possible) would decrease distance.
Of all that we do wrong while driving, I find that to be much less significant from a safety standpoint than the following:
driving while distracted, including talking on the phone, texting, tuning the radio, navigating, etc
battling with the other occupants in the car (my kids?)
forgetting there are others on the road (really, some drivers seem totally oblivious)
driving while impaired or devoting less than required concentration to the task at hand (tired, drunk, daydreaming or otherwise, I too have been guilty being to tired to drive)
Failure to follow even the simplest of rules/courtesies of the road: Stay right except to pass, speed up to merge, signal your intentions, go, don't dally, be aware of what's around you, slower traffic keep right- please for the the love of ones deity keep right- nothing is more irksome than to happen upon a solitary driver who merges at 20mph less than mean speed of traffic and heads straight to the leftmost lane to hold up all of the traffic they can.
One more, if I could carry a cannon on the front of my car that would fire one round, it would be meant for the ass parked in the leftmost lane holding up traffic for miles refusing to yield to faster traffic! Move the fuck over! Better yet give me the keys to your car and your license to drive- their confiscated forever, no soup for you.
Oh BTW, my steering wheel cannot be properly held at 9 and 3, it has spokes at 3,6, and 9. Same for my wife's car.
Sorry 'bout your wife's injury and I'm not directing this specifically at her as I don't know the circumstances. However, I've often wondered why folks who have enough time and anticipation to blow the horn don't use those mental resources to evade the collision in the first place- speaking strictly in those instances resulting in such. Horns are terribly overused and to me seem useful only in getting the attention of someone able to oblige. I would argue that the great majority of peers on the road are devoting 20% of their available mental resources to the task (driving) at hand, and that they should be allocating more like 80%. I find that drivers in Germany do an exemplary job of this, as well as abiding rules of the road and other drivers. The worst- China followed by America... (though I've not driven in any third world countries).
Proven me guilty? How? My identical twin was driving or maybe it was Fred the neighbor. Perhaps the photo evidence is dodgey. Regardless, where I live we have a bill of rights- states burden of proof is on prosecution which is why they don't issue criminal citations. Like I said its a revenue ploy and your pleas for more of that is misdirected. What you really want is revenue. That's what taxation and fees are for.
I never said I hate speed cameras. I in fact do, but that's not relevant here. What is relevant is if you want to stop speeders hire more traffic cops.
Have you considered that in many cases one need not be proved to have been the person to have committed the offense to be held responsible for the "crime". You receive a notice of violation via mail and must prove someone else did it to avoid responsibility. What happened to "innocent unless proven guilty"? For this reason, many municipalities will only issue fines and not criminal charges or "points" against your license. It is a money grab, pure and simple, not a means to enforce the law or increase safety.
As for politics- this is exactly the problem here...
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...one that puts the start button back in place. So far, Ive seen nothing to drag me away from the current version. Windows 8 feels dumbed down- do I really need the metro interface on a desktop? If not give me a start button.
Showing my ignorance... What about virtualization. I've not done any tinkering with this but can one not run XP or even DOS in a virtual machine hosted by a 64 bit OS?
Anything to say about the surgeons pay? Crickets...
If you can drive a school bus, you can drive an Airbus, right?
20 hours at the Dayton Airport hotel...very exotic indeed.
(30k vs 150k)
Wow, I've been at this for 25 years and I'm not making that much money- not even six figures. Tell me where to sign up for that, or were you mistaken about that 150K?
Maybe you should STFU, as you know to little about which you speak.
The monkey suit is not my ticket to ride- its my shiny hologram embossed ID badge, without which, the TSA does not consider me a "pilot"...
If you going to blame the flight attendants, why not the pilots too? Let's add the mechanics and the rampers while we're at it. Shit, let's be honest and assign all the blame for all the economy's problems to all of labor. They are the real problem here, and everywhere. Who needs the middle class, Why did we bother bailing out Detroit? Lazy autoworkers don't deserve to mop up after they shutter the industry. Let them find jobs at Walmart like everybody else...Let them eat cake.
When the middle class is gone there will be nothing left to hold up the economy. What will the "1%ers" do then- all that money and nothing to do with it. Shame really, 'cause they had nothing to do with running companies into the ground- absolutely nothing, flawless business decision making acumen and under appreciated management skills. They really should be paid more. $40 million dollars simply isn't enough. The only good thing about AA bankruptcy is that when they exit chapter 11, the executives will be made whole again- just like it never happened...and those miserable labor pukes will get what the deserve- stolen pensions, 50% paycuts, and doubled workloads. Social darwinism is real. You believe in it, right? You believe its just a matter of time before you join the ranks of the 1%, because you're a real hard worker, and real hard workers get rewarded? See ya on the other side...
1. No more banned items: not sure about this one. Terrorists don't value any life-even their own. What makes him think only taking a whole airliner out is at stake. I'm betting they'd be willing to give their lives for just a few passengers being knifed to death and the resultant chaos and fear- it is terrorism after all.
2. Allow all liquids: I'd like to know more before I acquiesce. They're definitely trying to get explosives on board. He needs to assure us that his statements are true by citing the science behind his claims.
3. Give TSA officers more flexibility and rewards for initiative, and hold them accountable: Right after 9/11, the airline provided security was "fired". Remember those fine folks at Argenbrite? I'm not trying to denigrate anyone, but those employees of privately contracters were mostly high school dropouts that were immediately rehired by TSA- many, it was discovered later, had criminal records. Things have improved but ten years have passed- shouldn't things have progressed further?. Who wants to be a TSA officer? I doubt the government would pay enough to hire the quality individuals needed to implement this kind of approach. The professionalism has advanced leaps and bounds, but they still pay them poorly
4. Eliminate baggage fees: YES- the airlines often create their own problems, like this. However, this policy is in response to customer economic behaviors. They want CHEAP airfares, not quality products, forcing the airlines to nickle and dime the fare payers. Look at Spirit for how bad this has become. If we want this, it will have to be enacted and regulated by the government. Good luck in this political environment of Tea Partyism.
5. Randomize security: agreed, however, this will ultimately decrease security. The issue is how much is lost compared to how much convenience is gained.
As a pilot, I'm subjected to nearly the same security requirements as passengers. I find this to be a waste of time. Thankfully, we are making headway in the area of trust based security- the one thing Hawley felt was unworkable. The Registered Traveler program needs a second look. If we can trust crewmembers with our lives, then we can start adding passengers to the list of trusted individuals.
Can't see why it would rank so high in stress when those are the factors. If I want to "get away" i can retreat to the cockpit and close the door: that removes "Working in the Public Eye" and "Meeting the Public" quite easily (depending on how those are defined), not that people stress me out. "Outlook/Growth Potential"- don't get me started on the age 60/65 retirement issue: it's been five years of stagnation on top of a bad economy and 9/11. "Environmental Conditions"- I do walkarounds in the winter, but I get to control the temp in my workspace to warm back up. Oh yeah, polar crossings are prohibited during solar events, but I do get the equivalent of a couple extra X-rays per year in cruise. If "Own Life at Risk, Life of Another at Risk" are considered important, maybe they could add a few dollars to my pay to sooth my nerves... a surgeon is paid 3-5 times what I make but he only holds one person's life in his hands at a time, I've got hundreds."Hazards Encountered"- that's fairly open ended. Maybe you should ask Clayton F. Osbon's copilot about that. "Physical Demands (stoop, climb, etc.)"- I'm not 20 pounds overweight from physical exertion, but lethargy is its own physical demand. "Deadlines"- I'll move when I'm damn well ready to, and not a moment sooner. At least safety is still both under the pilots control and his responsibility.
What stresses me out isn't even considered: 1) being paid half what I used to and working twice as much, and 2) not having had a pay raise for 9 years and 3) having managements tell employees "We're very committed to getting a deal with the pilots too. But it has to be fair; fair to them and fair to us." while they continue feed at the trough. Still love my work, just eager for some rewards to return to the profession.
Looks like manual trannies might be exempted as they have a clutch. But I agree- they're taking all of the fun out of driving.
but didn't we do this topic recently: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/03/24/139245/giant-paper-airplane-takes-brief-flight-over-arizona/? Anyway, again, here is my favorite:http://www.zurqui.com/crinfocus/paper/airplane.html/
Where to start.. You have nailed it sir.. This whole topic is important to me and you have , so far, summed it up best with the fewest words. At the moment we're at 400+ posts, but I would sincerely not expect it to end berfore 1000. It really relates to the way racisim is percieved/defined by people: Too many folks think its what whites have done over centuries/millenia and not enough think of it as what one individual/group does to another today. I personally am guilty of stereotyping as well as a victim of racism- shaped by my personal experience. I neither wish to be a victim nor a perpetrator, just hoping to overcome the gap of perception.
I completely believe that you have had numerous positive interactions with individual people of the middle east that you have come across. But I'd suggest most would agree with me that on the whole, westerners are hated (rightfully I would say for political reasons) by the majority of the citizens of Southeast Asian countries. Religion and culture play a part but it's mostly political. As for religion and culture, I find nothing redeeming about any religion, and culturally, Arab nations have positively medieval attitudes regarding free speech, freedom of religion, democracy, secular statehood, free enterprise and human rights and they treat women as second class citizens at best and property at worst. Don't take my word for it, research it yourself. Here's a starting point with a collection of statistics and polls: http://markhumphrys.com/islamic.world.html/. Fortunately, things have improved, if only marginally.
Definitely reckless, never bored, well traveled...and what does talk of infidels have to do with being well traveled?
Yes, obviously. Except UAE and Oman. We're lucky they let gaijin behind the wheel, as most infidels are too stupid to reach the afterlife. Can women even drive there? You may be right though, there are some wild examples here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjPWf_UQkSc/ Too much oil money, methinks, not enough "sense"...
The point is, why put your effort into honking the horn instead of attempting to regaining control of the car? Must we all just give up and become passengers? If the collision is avoidable, make every effort to do so. Put another way, if the collision is unavoidable, blowing the horn wont make a difference. To be sure, I did not suggest his wife erred- see first sentence of my original post...
So true i use it as my sig.
however, we might first want to get most drivers to put the other hand on the wheel for a start, then worry about where o'clock they put them...
Yes, they call them panic stops for a reason. But, I'd argue that, generally, drivers are woefully undereducated and we need to raise the bar a bit...JMHO.
in my 68 Dodge Dart you insensitive clod. There, fixed that for ya.
You got that right. Can you believe they teach new drivers in America to step as hard as you can on the brakes and let ABS work. Wrong, wrong wrong. If ABS has engaged, one should release pressure until just below threshold. Also stopping straight ahead (if possible) would decrease distance.
Of all that we do wrong while driving, I find that to be much less significant from a safety standpoint than the following: driving while distracted, including talking on the phone, texting, tuning the radio, navigating, etc battling with the other occupants in the car (my kids?) forgetting there are others on the road (really, some drivers seem totally oblivious) driving while impaired or devoting less than required concentration to the task at hand (tired, drunk, daydreaming or otherwise, I too have been guilty being to tired to drive) Failure to follow even the simplest of rules/courtesies of the road: Stay right except to pass, speed up to merge, signal your intentions, go, don't dally, be aware of what's around you, slower traffic keep right- please for the the love of ones deity keep right- nothing is more irksome than to happen upon a solitary driver who merges at 20mph less than mean speed of traffic and heads straight to the leftmost lane to hold up all of the traffic they can. One more, if I could carry a cannon on the front of my car that would fire one round, it would be meant for the ass parked in the leftmost lane holding up traffic for miles refusing to yield to faster traffic! Move the fuck over! Better yet give me the keys to your car and your license to drive- their confiscated forever, no soup for you. Oh BTW, my steering wheel cannot be properly held at 9 and 3, it has spokes at 3,6, and 9. Same for my wife's car.
Sorry 'bout your wife's injury and I'm not directing this specifically at her as I don't know the circumstances. However, I've often wondered why folks who have enough time and anticipation to blow the horn don't use those mental resources to evade the collision in the first place- speaking strictly in those instances resulting in such. Horns are terribly overused and to me seem useful only in getting the attention of someone able to oblige. I would argue that the great majority of peers on the road are devoting 20% of their available mental resources to the task (driving) at hand, and that they should be allocating more like 80%. I find that drivers in Germany do an exemplary job of this, as well as abiding rules of the road and other drivers. The worst- China followed by America... (though I've not driven in any third world countries).
These: http://www.whitewings.com/ are great and Fry's used to sell them, but only get the ones that have balsa inserts (if they still make them). The all paper ones require too much glue and cutting. And for an honest paper folded airplane, this one is a great flyer: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CDwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zurqui.com%2Fcrinfocus%2Fpaper%2Fairplane.html&ei=1f9tT_S2Hoz9sQKAxd2IBg&usg=AFQjCNEXIh1I2FmOnAXuQ_BMi0cVs_38fA&sig2=YdoQQKnsdLwtZ23Z5-iAFA
Proven me guilty? How? My identical twin was driving or maybe it was Fred the neighbor. Perhaps the photo evidence is dodgey. Regardless, where I live we have a bill of rights- states burden of proof is on prosecution which is why they don't issue criminal citations. Like I said its a revenue ploy and your pleas for more of that is misdirected. What you really want is revenue. That's what taxation and fees are for. I never said I hate speed cameras. I in fact do, but that's not relevant here. What is relevant is if you want to stop speeders hire more traffic cops.
The cited news publication (Chicago Tribune) covered this dubious claim in a series it ran within the last year. Predicably, the conclusion was contrary to your assertion of life saving miracles: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-11-06/news/ct-met-speed-camera-1106-20111106_1_speed-cameras-redspeed-illinois-pedestrian-death/
Have you considered that in many cases one need not be proved to have been the person to have committed the offense to be held responsible for the "crime". You receive a notice of violation via mail and must prove someone else did it to avoid responsibility. What happened to "innocent unless proven guilty"? For this reason, many municipalities will only issue fines and not criminal charges or "points" against your license. It is a money grab, pure and simple, not a means to enforce the law or increase safety. As for politics- this is exactly the problem here...